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Eulogy for Elsie

Posted on September 30, 2003 by Arthur

Last Tuesday we put Elsie MacKay to rest in New Germany. The following is the eulogy I wrote for the memorial service in Truro’s United Church. It’s put here for reference purposes only.

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Broken French

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Arthur

Hier, j’ai mis à jour à WordPress 3.0 et remarqué que, malgré les avertissements sur le Web, mon fidèle AHCommentCentral travaillait encore sur OK. Je n’ai pas fait quelque chose pour les sources depuis, peut-être il ya 4 ans. J’ai … Continue reading →

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I, Recurse

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Arthur

So, yeah: I was sitting at work and the snow starts falling down in the morning and before I know it, it’s chaos in town. On my way to King’s Square, I was most of the time sliding around or … Continue reading →

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So?

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Arthur

I was doing a quick trial update to move Alfons to the latest known WordPress version locally (on the server called Elsie). Yesterday, I had to download an older version of WordPress to see how my plug-in behaved (it behaves … Continue reading →

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A couple of stuff

Posted on July 27, 2005 by Arthur

Since my vacation is officially over, it’s time to return to the normal programming (and the job). On the personal plate are the following plans and corrections: Fandro: I noticed that the program refuses to go into ‘hidden’ directories: that … Continue reading →

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Importing old data

Posted on May 2, 2005 by Arthur

Alfons managed to export existing WordPress data, which I imported over here this very morning. What I basically did was updating (update set…. wp_posts/post2cat etc.) the IDs of posts and post2cat tables with the latest known entry of the dyndns … Continue reading →

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Desktop publishing

Posted on February 21, 2005 by Arthur

Looking for good HTML to PDF converters for my Debian (“Elsie”) box (plain server, no KDE/GNOME), I stumbled upon the word ‘Desktop Publishing’. Actually I ended up at the Scribus site, an open source program that claims to bring award-winning … Continue reading →

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And then there was Debian!

Posted on May 30, 2004 by Arthur

Took all night: We were watching Master and Commander first, then The Others. However, the last DVD was apparently b0rken so I ended up installing Debian from, what was it, 11 to 2:30 AM. The good thing is that there … Continue reading →

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Jiggle-do-jigdo

Posted on May 25, 2004 by Arthur

The Linux server (‘Elsie’) needs to be upgraded. After hours looking for a replacement of the Fedora Core 1 kernel I’m back at Debian. A couple of years ago, Alfons sent up a couple of Debian disks, which I planned … Continue reading →

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Backup

Posted on November 2, 2003 by Arthur

I‘m currently overlooking the backup of precious code and data to a CD: I grabbed a BackPack (MicroSolutions) from work. Quite an experience to install those drivers too: the old MyNote resisted to let any new hardware install on its … Continue reading →

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Hi Mom!

Posted on September 26, 2003 by Arthur

I remember that I was in doubt how to call you: Elsie or just ‘mom’. We were talking on the phone. I remember my staggering English, but eventually we both concluded that calling you mom was fine: I was going … Continue reading →

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